Time Clock, Aug. 13, 1956

FIRST BIG U.S. REACTOR to manufacture more nuclear fuel than it consumes
will be built near Monroe, Mich, by Detroit's Power Reactor Development
Corp., a group of 26 industrial firms and private utilities. Power
generated by the $40.5 million, 100,000-kw., "fast neutron breeder
plant" will be distributed by Detroit Edison Co. AEC, which has made
only small-scale fast breeders, stipulated that the company must show
its plant is safe before getting operating permit.

U.S. SYNTHETIC-RUBBER production by 1958 will almost equal the world's
total natural-rubber output. Since private producers bought the bulk of
the $700 million industry from the government in April...